in Antiquity, the third day of a marriage solemnity. It was thus called, because the bride, returning to her father's house, did ἀστυριασμός, lodge apart from the bridegroom. Some will have the apavlia to have been the second day of the marriage, viz., that wherein the chief ceremony was performed; thus called by way of contradiction from the first day, which was called ἀστυριασμός. On APE

the day called ἀπαλία (whenever that was), the bride presented her bridegroom with a garment called ἀπαλία.